AuthorTopic: Vector Linux 6.0 KDE-Classic feedback (Read 41154 times)

Hi All,I have an old Xerox printer (which I need to replace shortly) hooked up to my parrallel port.When I go to Control Center > Peripherals > Printers > Add printer > the local printer section is greyed out.

How do I fix this?

How do I install my printer?

And does anyone have any suggestions for a good all-in-one laser printer that works well with Linux?

Make sure your parallel port is initialized on boot. Use vasm > (super) > hardware > hwset and make sure "parallel" is checked.Reboot and try again.

Done, now I can select the parrallel port that my printer is attached to.The problem is I can not find a driver for my Xerox P1202.I do have a driver for this in my Mepis OS and I have been using this printer for years with Linux, there just isn't list any Xerox printers in Vector.

Just installed on my laptop, and it runs really fast compared to other KDE (even version 3) distros. It does seem solid and stable too, with bigger repo (some packages that I had to manually install are now available in Gslapt).

Yeah, looks like there is no launcher for Xsane. Open a terminal and launch it manually with command "xsane". If all works well, add a menu entry manually by right-clicking the menu button and select "Menu Editor". I'm sure you can take it from there

After successfully installed on my laptop w/o any issues, I tried to install VL KDE 3.5 on my home PC desktop too. Now I have 3 problems :

1/ My parents require me to leave a Windows partition for them (they just can't get used to Linux), and it's Windows 7. With previous version of 'doze like XP, VL detected the partition perfectly. However, I think with 'doze 7, it created a 100MB partition during installation, thus, VL failed to detect the system files, lilo only shows me the available Linux options and I have to manually edit and add 'doze to lilo.

2/ My PC screen resolution can be up to 1280x1024, but VL doesn't show me that option in Configure Desktop and only allows 1024x768 as maximum resolution (fyi, during installation, I chose "VESA" when it asked for screen settings).

3/ Wheel on mouse doesn't work, I can't scroll up & down in the page as it's supposed to work

Please tell me how do I get the 2nd & 3rd issues resolved, I will provide details if needed, thank you EDIT : I used VXCONF now, and screen resolution issue is solved. But there's another issue with sound, there's no sound at all, even though flash works fine on web browser

After successfully installed on my laptop w/o any issues, I tried to install VL KDE 3.5 on my home PC desktop too. Now I have 3 problems :

1/ My parents require me to leave a Windows partition for them (they just can't get used to Linux), and it's Windows 7. With previous version of 'doze like XP, VL detected the partition perfectly. However, I think with 'doze 7, it created a 100MB partition during installation, thus, VL failed to detect the system files, lilo only shows me the available Linux options and I have to manually edit and add 'doze to lilo.

2/ My PC screen resolution can be up to 1280x1024, but VL doesn't show me that option in Configure Desktop and only allows 1024x768 as maximum resolution (fyi, during installation, I chose "VESA" when it asked for screen settings).

3/ Wheel on mouse doesn't work, I can't scroll up & down in the page as it's supposed to work

Please tell me how do I get the 2nd & 3rd issues resolved, I will provide details if needed, thank you EDIT : I used VXCONF now, and screen resolution issue is solved. But there's another issue with sound, there's no sound at all, even though flash works fine on web browser

Cheers!

I also had a problem with sound, however I resolved it by opening "Kmix" and playing with the settings.I think I had to adjust the PCM volume.By the way I remember seeing someone post in the Mepis forums that he had difficulty dual booting with Win 7 as well.It apparently does some funny things above and beyond what earlier versions of Windows did.If I remember correctly you have to be very careful when resizing the Win 7 partition.

I don't have a link to that post handy but it may be worth your while looking it up.

Yeah, looks like there is no launcher for Xsane. Open a terminal and launch it manually with command "xsane". If all works well, add a menu entry manually by right-clicking the menu button and select "Menu Editor". I'm sure you can take it from there

I also had a problem with sound, however I resolved it by opening "Kmix" and playing with the settings.I think I had to adjust the PCM volume.By the way I remember seeing someone post in the Mepis forums that he had difficulty dual booting with Win 7 as well.It apparently does some funny things above and beyond what earlier versions of Windows did.If I remember correctly you have to be very careful when resizing the Win 7 partition.

I don't have a link to that post handy but it may be worth your while looking it up.

Thanks Neo,

I played with KMix for a while, but still no luck even though I have adjust the bar up and down for all the choices there (PCM, Speaker... etc, in fact, all of them)

As for partitioning with Win 7, it was missing after installing, but simply modify lilo.conf and add Windows in it works just fine